Water-elevator.



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WATER ELEVATOR.

APPLICATION TILED run, 1908.

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WATER-ELEVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

Application filed February 7, 1908. Serial No. 414,722.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. CONVERSE, citizen of the United States, residing at Basin city, in the county of Bighorn and tate of Wyoming, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Elevators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to irrigation; and it seeks to provide an economical means for, utilizing the current in a running stream for transferring water in such stream to an arid district.

The nature of my invention, and its novelty, utility and. practical advantages will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the best practical embodiment of my present invention of which I am cognizant. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the water elevating and expelling wheel comprised in my improvements. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing my improvements as mounted upon a float in a running stream and connected by a jointed conduit with land bordering the stream. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the line 44 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by arrow.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which:

A is a running stream of water, and B is the power wheel of my improvements, which may be supported by any means compatible with the purpose of my invention though I prefer to support it on a float C, after the manner shown in Fig. 3.

The wheel B comprises side walls a, a peripheral wall 1), blades 0 fixed with respect to and extending radially from'the wall I) and designed to receive the impetus of the current A in rotating the wheel, a transverse tube (1 fixed to the side walls a, preferably in the manner shown, and having diametrically opposite openings e, Fig. 2, and transverse walls f let into or otherwise connected to the side walls a and serving in combination with the same to form spiral conduits D which communicate with the openings 6 and are gradually increased in volume from said openings 6 to the periphery of the wheel where their mouths are preferably covered with diaphragms g of reticulated material, provided with a view of preventing eels and the like gaining access to the interior of the wheel and interfering with the proper working thereof.

The tube at of wheel B surrounds and is adapted to be rotated about a fixed tube E which is provided with openings e arranged to register with the openings e of said tube (1. The said tube E is closed at one end by a stufiing box or gland F, Fig. 1, and its opposite end is connected through a universal coupling G, Fig. 3, with a section of pipe H connected, in turn, through a coupling-I, of universal type, with a pipe J designed to lead to the point to which it is desired to lead the water.

K K are supports having eyes m at their upper ends in which are journaled the end portions of the tube (1.

L is a shaft journaled in suitable bearings and extending longitudinally through the tube E.

M is a spur gear wheel fixed on the shaft L.

N is aspur gear mounted on a stub shaft P carried by a su porting upright R, and intermeshed with the spur gear M; and S is an interiorly toothed annular gear fixed with respect to one side of the wheel B, and intermeshed with the gear N. Thus it will be manifest that when the wheel B is rotated in the direction indicated by arrow in Fig. 2, the shaft L will also be rotated, but in the opposite direction. On the shaft L is fixed an anger T which is. disposed in the tube E of wheel B and has for its ofiice to accelerate the passage of water through the said tube.

The salient feature of my invention resides in the spiral conduits D gradually diminished in size transversely as they approach the central tube, for it will be observed that incidental to the rotation of the wheel B in the direction indicated by arrow in Fig. 2, each conduit D will take up a volume of water, and such volume of water will serve to tra and to compress a body of air before it, an the said body of air will, when the conduit is opened to the discharge conduit, serve materially in impelling or forcing the preceding body of water.

it will be gathered from the foregoing that notwithstanding the practical advantages of my novel apparatus for the purpose set forth, the apparatus is simple and inexpensive in construction and is well adapted to Withstand the exposure to weather and the rough usage to which apparatus of corresponding character is o; dinarily'subjected.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts entering into this the best practical embodiment of my invention of which I am aware in or der to impart a full, clear and exact understanding o'f the said embodiment, but it is obvious that in the future practice of the invention such changes in the form, construction and relative arrangement of parts may be resorted to as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as defined in the claim appended.

In a contemporary application filed February 7, 1908, Serial No. 414,721, I have shown, described and claimed a water elevator which in addition to other elements comprises a power wheel which is similar to the one herein shown and described in that it is arranged to derive motion from a running stream of water, and to utilize such motion in raising water from the stream and operating' a pump which receives water from the wheel.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is

In means for the purpose described, the combination of a stationary conduit having an inlet opening, means supporting the conduit, a wheel supported by and rotatable about the conduit and also rotatable in a running stream and having openings adapted to register with the inlet opening of the conduit and spiral conduits leading from its periphery to said openings and also having blades on said periphery, an auger mounted to rotate in the stationary conduit, and a driving connection intermediate the wheel and the auger for rotating the latter by the former.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD R. CONVERSE. Witnesses:

A. L. HoUGH, WILLIAM W. DEANE. 

